Over the past week, inaccurate news regarding the supposed ban on Chinese bitcoin exchanges from mainstream media outlets in China and the US including Caixin, WSJ and Bloomberg shook the bitcoin market.
Almost immediately after the release of Caixin’s report, bitcoin price endured a minor correction, falling to around $4,100. Despite showing signs of recovery, follow up reports from WSJ, Bloomberg and other western news publications led the bitcoin price to decrease to $3,790.
While some analysts speculate that the baseless criticism from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon led to the minor correction of bitcoin, bitcoin experts including Blockstream CEO Adam Back stated that attributing the decline in bitcoin price to the statement of Dimon is far fetched, mostly because Dimon has continued to criticize bitcoin since 2014. Back explained:
“I doubt Dimon had any impact. Reaction is just china. I’ve been buying the ‘china bans bitcoin’ dip every time, each time move is smaller.”
What Will Happen to Chinese Exchanges?
On September 13, a statement from China’s National Internet Finance Association (NIFA) translated by Bitcoin.com read that Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges have no legal authority to operate at the moment and that exchanges have received many warnings in the past
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